been looking at netbooks. I think its an eee pc 1000h or samsung nc10 for me. Can't choose though. Been looking at specs closely. Samsung nc10 seems to be the best but the eee pc has wireless n, which is a big bonus to me. Top price by the way, heat added

Hi Guys...first post...just want to confirm that the NC10 is a cracker! - I got one on pre-order on Play.com for £299 about a month ago and im very very pleased with it. Wouldnt hesitate to reccommend it.

Hot, are these worth getting over say a laptop, I'm in need of a second device for some office tasks, internet browsing and some media.

This should be fine, it's got a very long battery life I can tell you that! :thumbsup:

whohasmyname

I have an Acer Aspire One and think its GREAT!!

This is apparently EVEN better!!

Haveing had both I can say this is definitely better - better build quality aswell.

mcnally32

been looking at netbooks. I think its an eee pc 1000h or samsung nc10 for me. Can't choose though. Been looking at specs closely. Samsung nc10 seems to be the best but the eee pc has wireless n, which is a big bonus to me. Top price by the way, heat added

You can swap the mini-PCI wireless card for a wireless -n one as many people have done.

The only downside to this laptop I think is that there is no option of built in 3G broadband and the resolution needs to be a little bigger.

I bought an NC10 three weeks ago - paid £322 for the blue.
Superb - Although it comes with XP Home, I am now running Vista Home Premium, Office Pro 2007, Expression, and Kaspersky.
The specs (size of screen, processor power, memory) of all netbooks are dictated by Microsoft (if you have a windows version), and if using the Atom processor by Intel.

I've got an acer aspire one and its great. the netbook concept (thanks asus) is about to take off big time

its what most people want from a laptop, a cheap, physically small and lightweight note taking websurfing device not the desktop replacements that dell et al have been pushing

I've been looking for stock of the AAO 1GB/120GB in white, but stocks after xmas seem to be non-existent, so suspect the NC10 will suffer the same shortage, that coupled with GBPs hammering against the $ in the last month, suspect new stock coming from taiwan will be more expensive - unless we are very lucky and retailers absorb the increases